Sprinkle the salt into the flour. Cut the butter into the flour. Add the sourdough starter and mix, then knead just until the dough comes together. Makes enough for at least two piecrusts or nine hand-sized pasties.

I honestly just threw the pasties together out of what was in the house. Ground chicken, garlic, powdered ginger because I was out of fresh, cumin, coriander, a hot pepper that wasn’t really hot enough, cayenne pepper, onions, mushrooms, some reconstituted dried celery and Swiss chard stems, and raisins. Sauteed in butter until done, finished off with garam masala. I went with curry because we’re fans of curry pan around here, and while I wasn’t up for deep frying, they had some of that curry pan taste. (: